Tunisia: African countries are capable of self-sufficiency in grain and its export

According to the report of the International Economic Group of Fars News Agency, quoted by Elium voteThe Tokyo International Summit for Development in Africa (TICAD 8) started on Saturday with the presence of officials, businessmen, international organizations and leaders of 48 countries in Tunisia.

In his speech at the opening ceremony of this summit, Tunisian President Qais Saeed said about the problems facing the African continent: What does Africa lack? Natural resources, some talk about grain crisis. Some African countries can supply all of Africa and Arab countries with grain.

He added: Africa should be united despite the problems and obstacles while the epidemic coronavirus It highlighted the vast differences between southern and northern Africa.

The TICAD Summit is a multi-stakeholder forum that brings together Japan, African countries, international organizations, development partner countries and institutions, and is expected to present 82 projects worth $2.7 billion.
In this meeting, 300 businessmen, 100 of whom are from Japan, representing 50 large Japanese and international economic institutions, 100 African businessmen and 100 Tunisian businessmen are participating.
Participants are also delegations from the African Development Bank, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the African Union and the United Nations.

Since 1993, Japan has called this TICAD conference with the aim of acceleratingWego It has organized political discussions between various African leaders and development partners on the challenges ahead.

The war in Ukraine has caused an increase in food prices around the world and a humanitarian crisis in some developing and African countries. Western sanctions against Russia are one of the reasons for the global food crisis.

Meanwhile, with the signing of the Black Sea initiative for the export of Ukrainian grains on July 22 (July 31) between KY And Moscow and with mediation The United Nations grain exports from Ukraine resumed; But four weeks after the start of grain export operations from three Ukrainian ports with the mediation of the United Nations, only one ship out of 34 Ukrainian grain ships has gone to Africa.

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